The most expensive part of these is the Speakjet chip itself, so it was my suggestion to him to combine the two in one so someone could just buy one unit and use it for both platforms. People might even be able to cannibalize the speakjet from their single-purpose units for a combo unit.

Richard is looking for someone to take over most of the manufacturing duties of these. Knowing that I'm a big advocate of the speech synth, he contacted me about this a few months back and I was sympathetic. However, he's already got someone on the Vectrex side who has agreed to make more VecVoxes, and he has an existing arrangement with AtariAge. So everything is kind of stuck in limbo.

It's my opinion that having three derivative products available at once (an additional run of traditional Atarivoxes, Vecvoxes, and combo units) is just plain silly for a niche market like this, let alone coming out through three different sources, with Richard still stuck in the middle in some kind of support capacity.

I may be able to start shipping Cybertech A/V mods soon. I haven't played with the prototype yet, but I convinced Chris to build an integrated AtariVox mixer circuit into it, so it would make sense for me to offer the AtariVox combo unit as a bundle.